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MR. SCHUTTE : Mr. Hakoda, in Section 6-3.4 County Bands. Do theycome directly under your department? MR. HAKODA: Administratively only. In other words , the bandmaster is considered as one of our key super- visory positions. He is appointed by the mayor. He comes under the direct supervision of the managing director according to the Charter but for administrative purposes he works out of my department. MR. SCHUTTE: He works under your department. So, he answers directly to the managing director. MR. HAKODA: On a day to day and budgeting,-- this kind of function , he reports to me. His budget is included in my departmental budget. By Charter he comes under the managing director. It is a funny kind of setup, but that is what it is. MR. SCHUTTE : Yes, that is why I 'm questioning it. He ' s appointed by the mayor but he answers to the managing director and he is put under your department. Talk about people having more than one master. . . . . MR. HAKODA: Yes , that is an example. MR. SCHUTTE : In turn , he hires all of the band people? MR. HAKODA: He is given the power to appoint bandmembers and to fire bandmembers. MR. SCHUTTE : But then he has to get approval from the managing director to fire them, according to the Charter. MR. HAKODA: Technically speaking, yes. MR. SCHUTTE : How do you think this works? Have you had any problems with this? MR. HAKODA: No, we haven ' t had any problems. He attends all of my staff meetings. We discuss the budget. He discusses every hire that he takes on or every separation that takes place with me. The setup is kind of odd but in working, in actual day to day function , it is no problem as far as I can see. MR. SCHUTTE : It just happens that yoUr department does all the paperwork, does all the administrative work for the bandmaster, though. MR. HAKODA: That is right. The payroll , everything else. MR. SCHUTTE : No say, though, whatsoever over the bandmaster. -11-